State of art systems in the domain of dynamism detection fail to estimate noise if depth images are being collected as input for the dynamism detection, as the noise in depth images depend on the scene being captured. Disclosed herein are method and system for determining dynamism by processing depth image of a scene. The system models depth sensor noise as ergodic stochastic process by determining that distribution estimated at each reference pixel from a plurality of neighborhood pixels in a reference image being processed is statistically same as a distribution estimated from evolution of the reference pixel over the time. After modeling the depth sensor noise in this manner, the same is eliminated/removed from the reference image, which is then processed to estimate divergence at each pixel based on temporal and spatial distribution built at pixel level in the reference image, and in turn determines dynamism in the scene.
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2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of historical depth images are images of the scene taken prior to the time instance ‘t’.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein modelling the depth sensor noise as the ergodic stochastic process comprises determining that distribution estimated at each reference pixel from a plurality of neighborhood pixels is statistically same as a distribution estimated from evolution of the reference pixel over the time.
4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the evolution of the reference pixel is a change of a pixel at the reference image, measured from the re-projected historical depth images at the pixel.
6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein extent of dynamism is determined based on value of the determined divergence between the spatial distribution and the temporal distribution.
8. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the plurality of historical depth images are images of the scene taken prior to the time instance ‘t’.
9. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the system is configured to model the depth sensor noise as the ergodic stochastic process by determining that distribution estimated at each reference pixel from a plurality of neighborhood pixels is statistically same as a distribution estimated from evolution of the reference pixel over the time.
10. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the evolution of the reference pixel is a change of a pixel at the reference image, measured from the re-projected historical depth images at the pixel.
12. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the system determines an extent of dynamism based on value of the determined divergence between the spatial distribution and the temporal distribution.
14. The non-transitory computer readable medium as claimed in claim 13, wherein modelling the depth sensor noise as the ergodic stochastic process comprises determining that distribution estimated at each reference pixel from a plurality of neighborhood pixels is statistically same as a distribution estimated from evolution of the reference pixel over the time.
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